Скачать или смотреть Postcard: Historic Rockhill Bridge Crossed Brush Creek With an Elegant Flair

Explore the history of Rockhill Bridge, a Kansas City landmark built by William Rockhill Nelson. Learn about its elegant arches and how it carried first horse and buggy, then automobile traffic over Brush Creek.

“Tin bridges” made William Rockhill Nelson hot under the collar. The Star’s founder, a proponent of the City Beautiful movement, didn’t like the looks of new metal bridges.. He even wrote editorials complaining about them.

But Nelson didn’t stop there. In 1900, he built what was reportedly Jackson County’s first stone bridge, on land south of Oak Hall, his majestic home where the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art now stands.

The bridge’s graceful double arch design originally carried horse and buggies across Brush Creek. But shortly after Nelson gifted the property to the city, Rockhill Road began to see automobile traffic too.

Over the next sixty years, the Rockhill Bridge (as it came to be called) underwent a series of upgrades and repairs. The biggest came in 1966, when new pillars to anchor it were put in place. A dedicated pedestrian bridge was also installed immediately to the west.

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